PowerApps

SharePoint List PowerApps are Canvas PowerApps but embedded into a SharePoint List. They are a powerful way to extend the out-of-the-box list forms into a full blown PowerApp. These types of PowerApps can be edited from the list they’re embedded on by clicking on Customize forms: But what if you have several of these PowerApps distributed in many lists though your organization? The first thing that comes to mind is to go to the PowerApps portal: Well, no luck over here… So where can we find our apps? Option #1: Cmdlets to the rescue Using the recently released PowerApps PowerShell Cmdlets ( blog here and docs here ) you could...

The Azure Key Vault service is perfect for saving all kinds of information in a secure manner: authentication keys to connect to a database server, SSL certificate files, and of course, passwords... or as Azure Key Vault names them, secrets.

Recently, Microsoft released a connector to use this service (still in preview) so building a PowerApp to manage these secrets is a match made in heaven

When using PowerApps, we get a fair amount of settings to change our text controls but sometimes, we need that little extra touch. One of those options is the font family. We get 14 font styles that are suitable for most design ideas. We might get more in the future but now, I’m going to show you how to include any desired font that might be required for any of your projects. First approach, the HTML control The first idea that you might have tried is to use the powerful HTML control that is included in PowerApps. This control lets you format it’s contents using plain HTML code, but it...

Ahhh Regular Expressions… that thing that keeps you returning to Stack Overflow for answers every time you need to use this language: Even so, this language is extremely helpful when you need a more powerful way to deal with string data. Recently, PowerApps got an update to add more features to it’s regular expression functions. We now have to two more functions in our ever growing arsenal: Match and MatchAll. As the name implies, these functions serve mainly to find matches for a given regular expression formula. Match finds the first piece that meets the requirements and MatchAll gives us a table of records of all the matches. This is...

PowerTwitter is a pixel-by-pixel implementation of Twitter’s homepage in a canvas PowerApp. Application features:Full use of the Twitter’s connector Sentiment analysis using Azure’s Text Analytics API Light and Dark themes The idea behind this project was to showcase the many possibilities when designing user interfaces for Canvas apps. You can learn by example on how to create rounded user dialogs, display a shade for zoomed images / dialogs, handle theming of your app and explore the fully potential of the flexible height gallery. User dialogs and shades for zoomed images As in popular image editing applications as PowerPoint itself, PowerApps lays all screen elements as layers. Depending on the localization...

When you create a Sharepoint List PowerApp you might have noticed that this kind of PowerApps get an auto generated name. Something like “MyApp on PowerApps forms”: You might also have noticed that there is no way to change this name from the App Settings: There is a little trick that I’ve found in order to change it’s name: From the File menu, in the Save section click on See all versions It will open a new tab listing all the saved versions of your App. Close the PowerApp tab. We need to do this because PowerApps locks the app to prevent changes from other locations. We are going to change the name from Versions...